Southborough (Tunbridge Wells)

Our Southborough practice is located in Royal Tunbridge Wells and serves surrounding areas including Bidborough, High Brooms, Speldhurst, Rusthall, Langton Green, The Pantiles, Groombridge, Fordcombe, Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells.

• Experienced professional team giving expert advice
• Moorfields Eye Hospital specialist optometrist
• Easily accessible, wheelchair friendly & free off street parking
• Enhanced 3D OCT retinal imaging & Eidon Ultra Wide Field retinal imaging available
• Community Ophthalmology Team (COT) including glaucoma management (NHS)
• APCOS acute emergency eyecare including patient self referrals (NHS)
• Extensive and competitively priced frame and spectacle lens range to suit all budgets

We are a specialist centre which provide services as part of the Community Ophthalmology Team (COT) providing assessment of common eye conditions referred by GPs & opticians including glaucoma management (NHS) and the APCOS acute emergency eyecare service accepting referrals from GPs, opticians, other health care practitioners & patient self-referrals, including eye drop prescriptions (NHS). Other services include cataract and post cataract surgery assessments.

We also provide a full glaucoma management service including eye drop prescriptions and Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) eye screening. Our enhanced eye health assessments include 3D-OCT Retinal Scanning, which mainly checks for any signs of glaucoma (optic nerve assessment) and any macula disease (such as macula degeneration) and Eidon Ultra Wide Field Retinal Scanning, which gives a more detailed peripheral retinal examination including fundus auto-fluorescence (FAF).

Childhood short-sightedness can be managed with our Myopia Management options of specialised glasses or contact lenses.

Other specialist equipment includes the iCARE ‘non-puff’ tonometer, making eye pressure screening more comfortable and accurate as well as Gonioscopy, for a more detailed assessment of the eye’s drainage angle.